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Global Contest for Content Related to Support for Overcoming COVID-19 together with I · SEOUL · U

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The Seoul Metropolitan Government will be holding the “Global Contest for Content Related to Support for Overcoming COVID-19” in order to conquer COVID-19 together with the citizens. We look forward to the participation of many citizens who are interested in the “Content Related to Support for Overcoming COVID-19” with excellent examples from the public sphere, stories about nameless heroes and heroines, and warm stories created during the social-distancing period.

April 2020

Mayor of Seoul

1. Title of Contest: Content Related to Support for Overcoming COVID-19

2. Details: Mature sense of citizenship and examples from the public sphere for overcoming the COVID-19 crisis

Stories of overcoming COVID-19 together with nameless citizen heroes and heroines

– Ex. Cases of voluntary participation of citizens, including volunteering in the healthcare and quarantine sectors and donation of masks

※ Participants can choose what they want to deliver in their work, regardless of the examples above (ex. combining examples of the public sector’s control of the crisis and citizens’ voluntary work; combining a story of quarantine volunteer work and a supportive message to those affected by COVID-19)

3. Qualifications: None ※ Teams can have a maximum of three members.

Koreans/non-Koreans living in and outside of South Korea

4. Categories: Video & Image

Video: No restrictions on genre, including storytelling, clip/animated GIF, music video, etc.

– Survey: Measuring citizens’ preferences through YouTube channel (the number of shares/views/comments/likes)

(3rd round) Expert Evaluation: Grading and selecting winners based on items of assessment

Evaluation

Assessment Item

Score

Evaluator

(2nd round)

Citizens’ preferences

30

Citizens

(3rd round)

Creativity

20

Experts

Compliance to subjects

25

Perfection

15

Usability

10

Total

100

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8. Award Ceremony

Awarding winners: Online Awards Ceremony

Prize money: A total of KRW 30 million (for 48 pieces of work)

Award Ceremony

Category/Prize

Video

Image

Grand Prize

1 winner, KRW 10 million

Gold Prize

1 winner

KRW 3 million

1 winner

KRW 2 million

Silver Prize

2 winners

20

2 winners

KRW 1 million each

Bronze Prize

3 winners

KRW 1 million each

3 winners

KRW 500,000 each

Participation Prize

10 winners

KRW 200,000 each

10 winners

KRW 100,000 each

Special Prize

15 children, KRW 100,000 each

※ Children means elementary school students and younger as of 2020 (*born after 2008)
※ Amount of prize money is in Korean currency; if paid in foreign currency, the exchange rate at the point of transfer will be applied
Ex. As of March 26, 2020, the KRW → USD exchange rate is KRW 1,230: 1 USD. This means winners of KRW 5 million will receive 4,065.04 USD.

9. Notes

Please feel free to participate, but once submitted, your work will not be returned.

Those who pass the 1st round must submit the original copy of their work.

Final winners must participate in the (online) award ceremony.

Any civil and criminal liability related to the portrait rights and copyrights of the submitted work belongs to the participant.

Winners of other contests and similar works will be excluded from evaluation. If the work that was selected to win turns out to have won other contests or was plagiarized from other works, the judging committee can rescind the award and the winner will have to forfeit the prize money.

The judging committee can decide to not to present any awards or cancel parts of awards according to the number and quality of submitted works.

The copyrights of the selected works will be possessed by the creator, but the Seoul Metropolitan Government can use them in publications and exhibitions within the range of accomplishing the goal of this contest and serving public interest.

The timetable of this contest are subject to change. Changes will be announced on the official website of the Seoul Metropolitan Government and “Seoul in Your Palm” (http://mediahub.seoul.go.kr).